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[tielan]

space_swap pinch-hit: Augment (Young Wizards)

Not as detailed as I wanted it to be: I had too many ideas and they all pulled in different directions - or required rather more time than I had to give it. And it was tricksy and difficult and awful and...

It's good enough, but not brilliant. I feel like it needs a jolly good sand and polish. *grumps*

Still, in the end, the recip liked it. So, small and very grateful mercies!

ship_swap: Gravity's A Bitch (Pacific Rim)

I wrote this pairing once before, and while I like it and the sex is hot, I'm just not that into white males sexing each other. It's not that I dislike white males, I just think female characters are more interesting. (And the feminist in me insists that it's more important to stretch the boundaries for women than to retread the comfort zones for men. Plus, I have the emotional and psychological wherewithal to do so, as well as the will and desire, which I gather a lot of female authors don't.)

It's really just a scene in a bigger emotional picture. Believe it or not, there's enough a plot and a psychological profile behind the sequence. I put it off and put it off and put it off, and in the end, just finished the scene, polished it off, and put it out there.

Better than nothing, although I think it was the recip's "emergency fandom" - "break glass in case of lack of matches" - and it wasn't quite what she was hoping for. (All her other requests were for a single fandom with multiple branches - think Marvel comics.)

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Other fics I have committed in the last couple of weeks:

The Odd Couple - Maria/Steve, Maria&Sam, Steve&Sam, post-AoU. WIP - 1/5. Or how a changed outlook on his life gives Steve new options.

People We Are Not - Clint & Natasha, Clint & other, with an intent to portend Clint/Natasha. Basically a fix-it (alternate universe?) for AoU. WIP - 1/2, although reads as complete.

Maybe Why - Maria/Steve, post-AoU. Comment fic for scribble_myname. A little mood piece - a quiet moment of interaction and intimacy.

Once Worshipped - Maria & Thor & kitten. Comment fic for geckoholic. Pretty much complete fluff.

His Mother's Son - original character, Maria, Steve, background Maria/Steve. I had a trope bingo square. And I started writing it. And somewhere along the way, this story happened.